19th Amendment Advantages

The U.S. Constitution's 19th amendment, claimed to give citizens the right to vote disregarding their gender. This is a very important amendment because it sculpted voting to how we know it today. Males and females can vote in unity and have been able to do so since August 18th, 1920. The 19th amendment has provided a positive outcome as it has allowed every legal citizen to vote, being a male or female. The 19th amendment directly states, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” In simpler terms, the courts had finally allowed women to vote, along with the already-established right to vote that men possessed. Women getting to vote was known as women's suffrage. In 1848, a convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York, to discuss women's rights. The meeting was held and ran by abolitionists, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.

The 15th amendment, which allowed African-American males to vote, was successfully passed before the 19th amendment was. This actually helped the women’s suffrage movement, as it brought in African-American women who also wanted to vote.

The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) were the two main associations that discussed women's right to vote. These two groups were conjoined to form the National American Woman Suffrage Movement (NAWSA) after they had been defeated by Congress on the Senate floor. They had just begun to persuade states to allow women to vote, such as, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, and thought they had enough backup and support to make women voting, a national occurrence.

Eventually, in 1900, Carrie Chapman Catt took over Stanton and Anthony's job as the leader.After the deaths of Stanton and Anthony, 18 more states allowed women to